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The movement of most music players, led by iTunes, away from Miller columns as the default navigation paradigm has sucked for me. For me, nothing works as well
by gilrain 8y ago
The movement of most music players, led by iTunes, away from Miller columns as the default navigation paradigm has sucked for me. For me, nothing works as well as three Miller columns: Genre, Artist, Album.
- peterburkimsher 8y agoI'd like to rewrite a cross-platform, mobile-friendly version of iTunes 10, as a side project. Right now I'm unemployed. Please contact me if you'd be interested in emailing me once a week to remind me to make progress on it.
- sephware 8y agoWhat language / framework / technology stack would you use to make this?
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoAgreed. Losing that and coverflow leaves iTunes with just the annoyances. MusicBee on Windows works better than most everything else, and keeps the three column view as one of the many options. Haven't found anything I can live with on the Mac yet. Never saw the point in Finder windows though, preferring the default, or two linked folders in one OS window like DirectoryOpus (Amiga and eventually Windows) and most ftp clients used to do it. That's better when needing source/dest, or diffing two folders etc.
- coldacid 8y agoOneCommander makes for a nice combination of Miller columns and [orthodox file management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_managers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man...) (the two side-by-side directories, i.e. what DOpus uses as its layout). Quite a few GUI (S)FTP clients still use the orthodox layout as well.
- tzs 8y agoIt's still there. Click "Songs" under Library in the sidebar. That causes a "Column Browser" menu to appear in the "View" menu. Select "Show Column Browser" from that. It's a toggle. That menu also lets you choose which columns to enable. The choices are Genres, Artists, Albums, Composers, and Groupings.
- Raphmedia 8y agoThanks a lot. I had been relying on the search feature but it hangs often on a 26k songs library.
- malnourish 8y agoIs genre a tag in that system? I have an almost impossible time of putting music I listen to into genres, and much of that music is multi-genre.